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- Doctor malpractice data is removed from public access by HHS Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/09/14/3141558/doctor-malpractice-data-is-removed.html#ixzz1Y1IsWG3S
- Revue des Études Tardo-antiques
- The first results of OA advocacy campaigns in EIFL partner countries | EIFL
- Report from the OASCIR Training Week (Jul 24-30th) now available
- #Solo11: Open science
- Copyright Clash: Authors Guild and Others Sue HathiTrust and Five Universities
- Subscription fees as a distribution control mechanism
- Joint reponse to EC Survey on Scientific Information in the Digital Age
- Tearing sharing to pieces: why openness is about more than sharing
- Library Copyright Alliance Issues Statement on Authors Guild v. HathiTrust (Sept. 14, '11)
- Bringing botany into the 21st Century
- Open Government: Berlin geht mit gutem Beispiel voran und gibt Daten frei
- OSTP Implementing Open Access Provision of COMPETES Act
- Africa’s most influential women in Science and Tech
- How academic journals price out developing countries
- In Authors' Suit Against Libraries, an Attempt to Wrest Back Some Control Over Digitized Works - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education
| Posted: 15 Sep 2011 04:37 AM PDT www.kansascity.com "Patient advocacy groups are protesting the government’s shutdown of public access to data on malpractice and disciplinary actions involving thousands of doctors nationwide. The National Practitioner Data Bank maintains confidential records that state medical boards, hospitals and insurance plans use in granting licenses or staff privileges to doctors. Although records naming physicians aren’t available to the public, the data bank for many years provided access to its reports with the names of doctors and hospitals and other identifying information removed. That changed Sept. 1 when the data bank removed these public-use files from its website. The action came shortly after it learned The Kansas City Star planned to use its reports [with other information to de-anonymize the records]...." |
| Revue des Études Tardo-antiques Posted: 14 Sep 2011 07:39 PM PDT recherche.univ-montp3.fr The Revue des Études Tardo-antiques is a forthcoming peer-reviewed OA journal from the Textes pour l’Histoire de l’Antiquité Tardive (THAT). |
| The first results of OA advocacy campaigns in EIFL partner countries | EIFL Posted: 14 Sep 2011 07:25 PM PDT www.eifl.net "Ghana’s Open Access Institutional Repositories Advocacy Campaign is proving to be very successful. It is implemented by Ghana’s consortia,CARLIGH, c/o Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partnership with AAU and with financial support from EIFL. Their advocacy campaign is designed to raise awareness of open access with government officials and the research community. Among their activities was a two-day workshop on Open Access Institutional Repository Advocacy,18-19 July 2011, that they organised in collaboration with AAU (Association of African Universities), Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH), and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT, the Netherlands)...." |
| Report from the OASCIR Training Week (Jul 24-30th) now available Posted: 14 Sep 2011 07:24 PM PDT OASCIR: an IR for UofK Faculty of Science, (17 Aug 2011) "Along the week from Jul 24th to 30th, a series of training courses and dissemination activities on Open Access and the DSpace@ScienceUofK pilot Institutional Repository (IR) were held at the University of Khartoum (U of K) in the framework of the eIFL.net-funded OASCIR Project (Open Access Scientific Institutional Repository)....The full-text report on the Training Week activities is available at the DSpace@ScienceUofK repository for the University of Khartoum...." |
| Posted: 14 Sep 2011 07:06 PM PDT Wellcome Trust Blog, (12 Sep 2011) "Last weekend I attended this year’s Science Online London conference (which the Wellcome Trust sponsored). Now in it’s fourth year, the event that grew out of a science bloggers’ meet up continues to bring together die-hard scientific data techies and the science 2.0 community....This week I’ll be reporting on a few of the key things I took from the conference...." |
| Copyright Clash: Authors Guild and Others Sue HathiTrust and Five Universities Posted: 14 Sep 2011 07:04 PM PDT www.libraryjournal.com "The Authors Guild—along with Australian and Canadian authors' organizations and eight individual authors—filed suit yesterday against the HathiTrust digital repository and five of its member universities to stop them from "reproducing, distributing and/or displaying" copyrighted works, among other alleged infringements—and charged them with "engaging in one of the largest copyright infringements in history." If successful on all fronts, the case could potentially derail HathiTrust's nascent orphan-works project and digitization projects across the nation—but some experts are already questioning how big an effect it will have....Intellectual property attorney Jonathan Band, a frequent consultant to the library community, told LJ that he thought the suit "borders on the frivolous." He also questioned the plaintiffs' standing to bring the suit, and called the plaintiffs' theory that Section 108 limits fair use "ridiculous." ...Grimmelman...noted that the suit could have a chilling effect on digitization projects such as the Digital Library of America...." |
| Subscription fees as a distribution control mechanism Posted: 14 Sep 2011 07:00 PM PDT The Occasional Pamphlet, (11 Sep 2011) "Ten years ago today was the largest terrorist action in United States history, an event that highlighted the importance of intelligence, and its reliance on information classification and control, for the defense of the country. This anniversary precipitated Peter Suber’s important message, which starts from the fact that access to knowledge is not always a good. He addresses the question of whether open access to the scholarly literature might make information too freely available to actors who do not have the best interests of the United States (or your country here) at heart. Do we really want everyone on earth to have information about public-key cryptosystems or exothermic chemical reactions? Should our foreign business competitors freely reap the fruits of research that American taxpayers funded? ..." |
| Joint reponse to EC Survey on Scientific Information in the Digital Age Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:47 PM PDT www.knowledge-exchange.info "Knowledge Exchange has welcomed the invitation of the European Commission to respond to the survey on Scientific Information in the digital age. The partners have each responded independently to the survey from the European Commission, but there are a number of shared positions which are highlighted in this shared response. From the perspective of the four organisations that make up Knowledge Exchange, all outputs from publicly funded research, including publications and research data, should be openly available on the internet as long as matters of privacy and confidentiality do not interfere. This is currently not the case. Providing open access will improve the access to and dissemination of research findings for a broad audience including citizens, students, SMEs and industry. There are various roads to achieve open access. These should be explored in cooperation with the researchers, research funding bodies and the publishers. If an embargo period would be relevant this should certainly be as short as possible...." |
| Tearing sharing to pieces: why openness is about more than sharing Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:38 PM PDT Innovation Investment Journal, (12 Sep 2011) |
| Library Copyright Alliance Issues Statement on Authors Guild v. HathiTrust (Sept. 14, '11) Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:11 PM PDT Association of Research Libraries - Full Feed, (14 Sep 2011) "Today, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) released the following statement concerning the lawsuit, Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. HathiTrust et al., against HathiTrust and its research library partners...[:] We are deeply disappointed by the Authors Guild’s decision to file a lawsuit, Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. HathiTrust et al., against HathiTrust and its research library partners. The case has no merit, and completely disregards the rights of libraries and their users under the law, especially fair use....The majority of [the 10 million works in the HathiTrust] are not available commercially and will disappear completely if not for library stewardship. We applaud the modest steps HathiTrust and its partners have taken to foster those “orphan” works whose owners have abandoned them to library care....It is deplorable that eight authors and three special interest groups are trying to dismantle this invaluable resource out of a misplaced fear of the digital future...." |
| Bringing botany into the 21st Century Posted: 14 Sep 2011 02:10 PM PDT www.eurekalert.org "Botanical taxonomy, which extends to include the formal scientific naming of all plants, algae and fungi has gone through a landmark change in the procedure scientists need to follow when they describe new species. Details of the forthcoming changes to the newly-named 'International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants' are laid out by Dr Sandra Knapp and colleagues in an article published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology....[The] existing, somewhat archaic, requirement for printed descriptions of new species to be deposited in relevant institutions has been a frustrating requirement of the code for scientists choosing to publish in online-only journals, such as BMC Evolutionary Biology....This has become an impediment to science....Changes to the international Code for naming algae, fungi or plants are decided on every six years at the International Botanical Congresses (IBC). Earlier this year, at the XVIII IBC held in Melbourne, Australia, it was decided that from 1 January 2012 scientists who describe new taxa (species, genera, families) will be able to publish their discoveries entirely online [e.g. in an OA journal]....These changes that will appear in the 'Melbourne Code' as it will be known...." |
| Open Government: Berlin geht mit gutem Beispiel voran und gibt Daten frei Posted: 14 Sep 2011 02:05 PM PDT |
| OSTP Implementing Open Access Provision of COMPETES Act Posted: 14 Sep 2011 02:00 PM PDT AADR Government Affairs, (19 Aug 2011) "OSTP [White House Office of Science and Technology Policy] has indicated that they plan to issue a Request for Information (RFI) within the next few weeks, which will provide an opportunity for input [on federal OA policy]...." |
| Africa’s most influential women in Science and Tech Posted: 14 Sep 2011 09:20 AM PDT www.itnewsafrica.com One of the 10 women is Heather Ford: "Heather Ford...launched Creative Commons South Africa, was project director of the Commons-Sense programme at Wits University’s Link Centre and co-founded the African Commons Project. Heather was appointed executive director of iCommons, a UK based corporation that seeks to improve the global commons by promoting collaboration amongst supporters of open education, access to knowledge, open access publishing and free software communities. Heathers’ research and work in developing the commons led her to Wikipedia, where she serves as a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board...." |
| How academic journals price out developing countries Posted: 14 Sep 2011 09:16 AM PDT theconversation.edu.au "Universities libraries in the developed world are struggling to pay academic journal subscription costs — so how can universities in developing countries hope to pay? In this Q+A, Professor Adam Habib, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Advancement at the University of Johannesburg outlines some of the ways a for-profit academic journal model affects developing countries...." |
| Posted: 14 Sep 2011 09:12 AM PDT chronicle.com "The copyright-infringement lawsuit brought on Monday by the Authors Guild and others against the HathiTrust digital repository, the University of Michigan, and four other universities could have a major impact on research libraries and the fate of millions of book scans created by recent mass-digitizing efforts. The plaintiffs seek to take control of those files out of the hands of libraries until Congress establishes guidelines for the use of digital libraries and orphan works—those that are subject to copyright but whose rights holders can't be identified or located. But Paul Courant, dean of libraries at Michigan, said the libraries and the trust are in the right and will go on with their work. "We still think it's entirely legal, and we're going to continue to do what we're doing," he said....[The suit] asks the court to impound and lock up "all unauthorized digital copies" of copyright-protected works in the defendants' possession, pending some appropriate action by Congress. It requests the court to prevent the defendants from giving Google clearance to scan more copyrighted works. It also seeks the suspension of Michigan's Orphan Works Project, which seeks to identify orphan works and make them more widely available...." |
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